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Tupac Vs. Talib Kweli Vs. Rush

Wed, Dec 28, 2005@9:37AM | comments removed/disabled

[MTV.com Mixtape Monday:]

MTV.com is reporting that the latest mixtape from DJ Vlad(AKA The Butcher), Rock Phenomenon, features a track that uses Rush's Tom Sawyer. Here's some background from the article:

DJ Vlad (a.k.a. the Butcher) teamed up with Roc Raida to deliver a mixtape in the same vein as Vlad's Rap Phenomenon series ... except that rap verses from the likes of Tupac, Jay-Z and M.O.P. are mixed with tracks from rockers like Nirvana, AC/DC, Korn and Ozzy Osbourne. ...

The track featuring Tom Sawyer is called Tupac Vs. Talib Kweli Vs. Rush.:

" 'Tom Sawyer' was the Rush record we used," Vlad began to explain. "It's really a DJ's type of song. Talib Kweli actually came in the studio for this one. That's an original verse from him. He heard it and was juiced, like, 'Let's do it. Yeah, that's the one.' Talib really didn't know the Rush beat, but he was into what Tupac was saying. Kweli started rapping like, 'It was the night before Pac died and all through the 'hood/ Ain't a n---a was sleeping, and they wanna know what's really good/ Did we lose a soldier and gain a angel?/ Streets quiet down and let me express my anger.' Pac's verse was from, I believe, 'One Day at a Time.' "

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